Tolgahan Acar

Tolgahan Acar — Biography

Tolgahan Acar is a goalkeeper from Adana. Coming out of the Adanaspor academy, he has worn the gloves in several divisions of Turkish football over many years, and at Sivasspor he won the TFF First League with the club in 2016-2017. He most recently kept goal for the Third League side Adana 1954 FK.

He also played for the Çukurova University team before joining Adanaspor in 2002, where he spent his first years in the youth side. In 2004 Gaziantepspor signed him, but he did not feature there regularly and spent most of his time with the youth team or on loan at Adanaspor. After returning to Adanaspor permanently in 2009 he started 32 matches in the 2009-2010 season and won over supporters with his saves. He took part in Adanaspor's Third League and Second League title seasons. He later played for Altınordu, leaving that club in May 2016, wore the shirt of Göztepe, and moved to Sivasspor. When Sivasspor parted ways with him in June 2019 he transferred to Denizlispor, and he left Giresunspor in August 2021. He then played for Turgutluspor and later Adana 1954 FK.

As a youth he played for Turkey at under-18, under-19, under-20 and under-21 level, and was called up to the youth national teams 25 times in all. In a 2017 interview with Sabah he said that what mattered about foreign players in Turkish leagues was their quality rather than their number.